The Arizona Fall League season is five days old, but for the first time in the blogging era, it’s not where the eyes are on the White Sox farm system. The rebuild has instead resulted in a newfound focus on the instructional league.
The instructional league is like spring training for the postseason, but with even fewer discouraging words. Most players look great in instructs. A player seldom looks overmatched or awful in Arizona, and if he is, he’s probably working on something.
That’s how it should be. They’re technically adults, but they’re kids in the baseball world with the minimum-wage-or-below salaries to match, and they should be allowed to figure out the game at whatever pace they can achieve.